Eric E. Nelson

14.8k citations

136 papers · 11.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 50

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Behavioral Neuroscience top 0.2%
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 0.1%
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mental Health Research Topics

Papers in ⓘ

Behavioral Neuroscience 19
- Stress Responses and Cortisol 19
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 52
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes 43

Co-authors: Daniel S. Pine (54 shared papers)Ellen Leibenluft (35 shared papers)Monique Ernst (36 shared papers)Amanda E. Guyer (23 shared papers)Erin B. McClure (17 shared papers)Jaak Panksepp (7 shared papers)Christopher S. Monk (16 shared papers)James Blair (8 shared papers)
Journals: NeuroImage (8 papers)Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (8 papers)Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (7 papers)American Journal of Psychiatry (6 papers)Biological Psychiatry (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Eric E. Nelson

133 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Social re-orientation and brain development: An expanded and updated view 2015 · 290 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
2005 Psychological Medicine

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1	The social re-orientation of adolescence: a neuroscience perspective on the process and its relation to psychopathology Psychological Medicine ·Eric E. Nelson, Ellen Leibenluft, Erin B. McClure, Daniel S. Pine Hit paper breakdown →	2005	781
2	Brain Substrates of Infant–Mother Attachment: Contributions of Opioids, Oxytocin, and Norepinephrine Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews ·Eric E. Nelson, Jaak Panksepp	1998	485
3	Amygdala and nucleus accumbens in responses to receipt and omission of gains in adults and adolescents NeuroImage ·Monique Ernst, Eric E. Nelson, Sandra Jazbec, Erin B. McClure, Christopher S. Monk, Ellen Leibenluft, James Blair, Daniel S. Pine	2005	484
4	Adolescent immaturity in attention-related brain engagement to emotional facial expressions NeuroImage ·Christopher S. Monk, Erin B. McClure, Eric E. Nelson, Eric Zarahn, Robert M. Bilder, Ellen Leibenluft, Dennis S. Charney, Monique Ernst, Daniel S. Pine	2003	373
5	Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Activation and Attentional Bias in Response to Angry Faces in Adolescents With Generalized Anxiety Disorder American Journal of Psychiatry ·Christopher S. Monk, Eric E. Nelson, Erin B. McClure, Karin Mogg, Brendan P. Bradley, Ellen Leibenluft, James Blair, Gang Chen, Dennis S. Charney, Monique Ernst, Daniel S. Pine	2006	360
6	Abnormal Attention Modulation of Fear Circuit Function in Pediatric Generalized Anxiety Disorder Archives of General Psychiatry ·Erin B. McClure, Christopher S. Monk, Eric E. Nelson, Jessica M. Parrish, Abby Adler, James Blair, Stephen J. Fromm, Dennis S. Charney, Ellen Leibenluft, Monique Ernst, Daniel S. Pine	2007	332
7	Modulation of emotion by cognition and cognition by emotion NeuroImage ·Karina S. Blair, Bruce W. Smith, Derek Mitchell, John Morton, Meena Vythilingam, Luiz Pessoa, Daniel J. Fridberg, A J Zametkin, Eric E. Nelson, Wayne C. Drevets, Daniel S. Pine, Alex Martin, James Blair	2007	331
8	Choice selection and reward anticipation: an fMRI study Neuropsychologia ·Monique Ernst, Eric E. Nelson, Erin B. McClure, Christopher S. Monk, Suzanne Munson, Neir Eshel, Eric Zarahn, Ellen Leibenluft, Alan J. Zametkin, Kenneth E. Towbin, James Blair, Dennis S. Charney, Daniel S. Pine	2004	298
9	Social re-orientation and brain development: An expanded and updated view Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience ·Eric E. Nelson, Johanna M. Jarcho, Amanda E. Guyer Hit paper breakdown →	2015	290
10	Neural substrates of choice selection in adults and adolescents: Development of the ventrolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices Neuropsychologia ·Neir Eshel, Eric E. Nelson, James Blair, Daniel S. Pine, Monique Ernst	2006	282
11	Amygdala and Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Function During Anticipated Peer Evaluation in Pediatric Social Anxiety Archives of General Psychiatry ·Amanda E. Guyer, Jennifer Y. F. Lau, Erin B. Tone, Jessica M. Parrish, Nina D. Shiffrin, Richard C. Reynolds, Gang Chen, James Blair, Ellen Leibenluft, Nathan A. Fox, Monique Ernst, Daniel S. Pine, Eric E. Nelson	2008	279
12	A Developmental Examination of Amygdala Response to Facial Expressions Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ·Amanda E. Guyer, Christopher S. Monk, Erin B. Tone, Eric E. Nelson, Roxann Roberson‐Nay, Abby Adler, Stephen J. Fromm, Ellen Leibenluft, Daniel S. Pine, Monique Ernst	2008	273
13	Orbitofrontal cortex tracks positive mood in mothers viewing pictures of their newborn infants NeuroImage ·Jack B. Nitschke, Eric E. Nelson, Brett D Rusch, Andrew S. Fox, Terrence R. Oakes, Richard J. Davidson	2004	268
14	The NIMH Child Emotional Faces Picture Set (NIMH‐ChEFS): a new set of children's facial emotion stimuli International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research ·Helen L. Egger, Daniel S. Pine, Eric E. Nelson, Ellen Leibenluft, Monique Ernst, Kenneth E. Towbin, Adrian Angold	2011	234
15	Common and Distinct Amygdala-Function Perturbations in Depressed vs Anxious Adolescents Archives of General Psychiatry ·Katja Beesdo‐Baum, Jennifer Y. F. Lau, Amanda E. Guyer, Erin B. Tone, Christopher S. Monk, Eric E. Nelson, Stephen J. Fromm, Michelle Goldwin, Hans‐Ulrich Wïttchen, Ellen Leibenluft, Monique Ernst, Daniel S. Pine	2009	207
16	The neurobiology of the emotional adolescent: From the inside out Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews ·Amanda E. Guyer, Jennifer S. Silk, Eric E. Nelson	2016	200
17	A developmental examination of gender differences in brain engagement during evaluation of threat Biological Psychiatry ·Erin B. McClure, Christopher S. Monk, Eric E. Nelson, Eric Zarahn, Ellen Leibenluft, Robert M. Bilder, Dennis S. Charney, Monique Ernst, Daniel S. Pine	2004	185
18	Neural circuitry underlying affective response to peer feedback in adolescence Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ·Amanda E. Guyer, Victoria Choate, Daniel S. Pine, Eric E. Nelson	2011	179
19	Brain Systems for the Mediation of Social Separation‐Distress and Social‐Reward Evolutionary Antecedents and Neuropeptide Intermediaries^a Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·Jaak Panksepp, Eric E. Nelson, Marni Bekkedal	1997	178
20	Probing the Neural Correlates of Anticipated Peer Evaluation in Adolescence Child Development ·Amanda E. Guyer, Erin B. Tone, Nina D. Shiffrin, Daniel S. Pine, Eric E. Nelson	2009	175

About Eric E. Nelson

Eric E. Nelson is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology, having authored 136 papers that have together received 11.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (46 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (43 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (34 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (23 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (19 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (19 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (17 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Behavioral Neuroscience (1.4k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (4.3k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (4.7k citations), Clinical Psychology (4.7k citations) and Social Psychology (3.1k citations). Eric E. Nelson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Daniel S. Pine, Ellen Leibenluft, Monique Ernst, Amanda E. Guyer, Erin B. McClure, Jaak Panksepp, Christopher S. Monk, James Blair, Johanna M. Jarcho and Daniel S. Pine. Their work appears in journals such as NeuroImage, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, American Journal of Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry.

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